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tunnel English

Meaning tunnel meaning

What does tunnel mean?
Definitions in simple English

tunnel

A tunnel is a big hole for vehicles to drive in. This tunnel collapsed a few years ago due to construction faults.

tunnel

If you tunnel, you make a tunnel.

tunnel

a passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars) the tunnel reduced congestion at that intersection force a way through (= burrow) move through by or as by digging burrow through the forest (= burrow) a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter

Synonyms tunnel synonyms

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Topics tunnel topics

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Conjugation tunnel conjugation

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tunnel · verb

Examples tunnel examples

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Simple sentences

You want to go via the tunnel?
I hope the light at the end of the tunnel is not from the train coming on me.
The train traversed a tunnel.
The new tunnel will link Britain and France.
It takes us five minutes to walk through the tunnel.
Our train went through a long tunnel.
The new tunnel is twice as long as the old one.
The train roared through the tunnel.
The train went through a tunnel.
The new tunnel will link Great Britain and France.
Many trains pass through the old stone tunnel.
What's your opinion about a transatlantic tunnel?
Do you pay the tunnel toll here?
I saw a light at the end of the tunnel.
The sightseeing bus ran through a long tunnel.
That child dug a tunnel in the sandpit.
This tunnel is twice as long as that one.
They dug through the mountain and built a tunnel.
A tunnel has been bored through the mountain.
They drove a tunnel through the hill.
Building a tunnel from Japan to China is out of the question.

Movie subtitles

They're gonna build a tunnel there in the morning.
Hey there! There are still five men in the railcar room, tunnel 8.
Allow me to decorate you with the Order of the Stuffed Tunnel.
Hey fellas, that looks like a mine tunnel.
Then why does that tunnel lead to this room?
You're coming to a tunnel.
I've always lived in a tunnel.
Live like we just got out of a tunnel.
A tunnel?
Why? - Or a tunnel, or a bridge?
We'll be out of this tunnel in a minute.
In the tunnel?
That tunnel wasn't a bad idea.
And believe me, if ever the opportunity arises I'll repay you for every foot of this tunnel, with interest.
We wait for him in the small tunnel.
Pull in your ears. You're coming to a tunnel.
Where's the tunnel?
Is the tunnel safe?
About the tunnel.
We dug a tunnel in room 7, Sir.
A tunnel for escaping.
Down in Tunnel B.
It happened in a tunnel. The noise was just awful.
This tunnel leads to the outside wall.
General, all the lines to the tunnel are shot to pieces.
Case the Holland Tunnel for me, will you?
One day, the railway came along and ran a tunnel right through the hill without by-your-leave or nothing.
He cursed the tunnel.
Well, it's. You er, go down the line and take the first tunnel on the left.
He haunts the tunnel, he haunts the hill and the land that lies between.
Tunnel?
Look, there's the tunnel.
Ooh, a tunnel.
Not now! We're in a tunnel.
Old mine tunnel.
Well, those posts just kept the tunnel from falling in, that's all.

News and current affairs

Migrants who have made it as far as France are living in tents near Calais, waiting for a chance to get to England by scrambling aboard a freight train passing through the Channel Tunnel.
And there is light at the end of the tunnel for the eurozone.
And it is education that provides children with hope that there is light at the end of the tunnel - hope that they can plan for the future and prepare for jobs and adulthood.
This stratagem precipitated the renewed violence that erupted in June when Palestinians dug a tunnel under the barrier that surrounds Gaza and assaulted some Israeli soldiers, killing two and capturing one.
Markets seem to believe that there is light at the end of the tunnel for the economy and for the battered profits of corporations and financial firms.
There may be light at the end of the tunnel - no depression and financial meltdown.
Negative reinforcement and delayed gratification are unlikely to achieve their goals unless there is a perceived light at the end of the tunnel - a future reward for today's sacrifices.
It is to be hoped that there will be a light at the end of the tunnel in the Arab Middle East as well, but the tunnel may be a long one.
But as they fade away, there could be some light at the end of the tunnel.
This confronts Putin with a challenge he has never faced: leading Russia at a time when there is no light visible at the end of the tunnel.
The current team of leaders has been an enormous disappointment. But as they fade away, there could be some light at the end of the tunnel.

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